Course: Legal & Ethical Environment Professor: Dr. Libertella Chapter 16 Business Ethics Perspective P419 1. Stewart was not an insider of ImClone and she received the tip from her stockbroker. Does she have an ethical obligation to ask where the tip came from or why the broker was recommending selling the stock? Does the fact that Stewart was an officer and director of a publicly traded corporation require her to use higher ethical standards when buying and selling stock of other companies
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Case Study – Babybelle While observing the judge’s legal reasoning in this particular case‚ I could say that ”Ratio decidendi” depends on the current facts emphasized in the case and that “Obiter dicta’s” concept presents conclusions based on hypothetical situations. - The major legal issues The legal issues in this particular case are relied on the ASIC Act where a person becomes automatically disqualified from managing a corporation if the person is convicted of an offence that “involves dishonesty”
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PROJECT ON LEGAL RESEARCH Submitted by: ANDREW T. GARCIA LLB 1-2 LEGAL DOCTRINES I. CIVIL LAW 1. Doctrine of Relations That principle of law by which an act done at one time is considered by a fiction of law to have been done at some antecedent period. It is a doctrine which‚ although of equitable origin‚ has a well-recognized application to proceedings at law; a legal fiction invented to promote the ends of justice or to prevent injustice end the occurrence of injuries
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Models for the Analysis of Legal Argumentation EVELINE T. FETERIS Department of Speech Communication‚ Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric University of Amsterdam Spuistraat 134 1012 VB Amsterdam Netherlands e.t.feteris@uva.nl Introduction In their classical works on argumentation the philosophers Chaïm Perelman and Stephen Toulmin presented the procedures and practices of legal reasoning as a model for a rational practice of argumentation. In the 50 years since the publication of Perelman and
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LEGAL SYSTEMS What is a legal system It is an operating set of legal institutions‚ procedures and rules regulating a given society From a law perspective: restricted to where the ’sovereign’ commands different laws for different groups of the population From a non state perspective: includes the system of courts and judges supported by the state as well as non legal forms of normative ordering. Normative ordering - e.g. Written codes‚ security forces‚ tribunals etc which replicate the structure
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CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN AFRICA LEGAL METHODS – 1ST TRIMESTER NOTES – LECTURER FREDA KABATSI Faculty Vision: To train the students in the Faculty of Law to become conscientious and ethical lawyers who have an excellent grounding in legal principles and who will provide leadership in Kenya‚ East Africa and beyond. OVERVIEW OF LEGAL METHODS * Legal Methods is the study of how law operates in the society and how lawyers‚ judges and legislative think and do things according to the law.
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the case of grey v Pearson (1857)6 hlc‚ discuss the scope and ambit of the golden rule Golden Rule In law‚ the Golden rule‚ or British rule‚ is a form of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts. The other two are the “plain meaning rule” (also known as the “literal rule”) and the “mischief rule.” The golden rule allows a judge to depart from a word ’s normal meaning in order to avoid an absurd result1. The term “golden rule” seems to have originated in the 1854 case of Mattison
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perspective to the audience about a topic that has been a rising problem the past decade. Specific Purpose: To provide a new perspective to people on the beneficial side of increasing legal immigration Thesis: Although there are many arguments in favor of closing the borders‚ the opposing argument for increasing legal immigration has a many benefits as well INTRODUCTION: Of course border control and immigration are something you have all heard mentioned whether its by people you know‚ on the news
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The Legal System Imagine you are the director of health information services for a medium-sized health care facility. Like many of your peers‚ you have contracted with an outside copying service to handle all requests for release of patient health information at your facility. You have learned that a lobbying organization for trial attorneys in your state is promoting legislation to place a cap on photocopying costs‚ which is significantly below the actual costs incurred as part of the contract
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The Legal Memorandum vs. Case Brief A case brief is a short summary of a reported case. Students write case briefs to summarize cases they have read for class to keep track of the large number of cases students are required to read and analyze. During legal research case briefs serve to help the researcher keep track of the cases read and analyzed and can serve as the foundation for legal arguments in trial briefs or other documents filed with the court. Basically‚ a case brief summarizes
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